Overview

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Biannual Traffic Surveys from May 2017 to Oct 2023.

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All Transportation Modes

Cycling

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Traffic counts by mode. The highest counts are furthest left, decreasing to the right.

Motor Vehicles Active Travel

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Car

LGV

HGV

Service Bus

Taxi

Motorcycle

Coach

Pedestrian

Bicycle

Hourly Patterns – Active Travel

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Cycling – per Bi-Annual Period

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Walking – per Bi-Annual Period

About

 
The biannual survey is carried out by Scotland's National Monitoring Framework, on a Wednesday and the following Thursday normally toward the end of May and September. It tracks, on selected roads in settlements (or locations) for each of the 32 local authorities, nine modes of transport, including (passenger) cars and the two main modes of active travel – walking and cycling.


Where a survey cannot be carried out on the survey dates data is typically collected on the same weekdays the following week. In a few instances there is a delay of several weeks; while this may introduce seasonality differences especially for active travel, to allow comparison over time for each location, delayed counts are included in the analysis.

Data Sources

Data feeding into the analysis presented may be accessed via Cycling Scotland's Active Travel Open Data Portal.

 

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Settlements with surveys completed designated survey month, cf. those partially or fully delayed per period

Survey Period Survey Months No of Settlements Surveyed on Date Partial Survey Delayed Survey
Spring 2017 May 9 9
Autumn 2017 Sep 19 19
Spring 2018 May 19 19
Autumn 2018 Sep 29 29
Spring 2019 May 31 31
Autumn 2019 Sep, Oct 31 30 1
Spring 2020 May, Jul 32 30 1 1
Autumn 2020 Sep 32 32
Spring 2021 May, Jun 75 72 3
Autumn 2021 Sep, Oct 75 72 1 2
Spring 2022 May, Jun 64 59 3 2
Autumn 2022 Sep 65 65
Spring 2023 May, Jun 65 64 1
Autumn 2023 Sep, Oct 65 61 2 2